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“Roll Tide!!” That is an expression anyone who watches college football outside the state of Alabama is sick to death of at this point in time. The Alabama Crimson Tide rolled to their third College Football National Championship in four years last night, crushing an over-matched Notre Dame squad 42-14 and extending a dominating streak by the SEC, which has produced the last seven national champions.

Many of you may have noticed though that the Crimson Tide is kind of an odd nickname, and fairly unbecoming when your imagination gets a chance to run with it. You also may have noticed that the Alabama mascot is an Elephant. Political affiliations aside, Alabama is about the last place most of us would associate with an Elephant. So how did the University of Alabama get these nicknames? How much moonshine was involved? How many people in Alabama can spell “Elephant” without an “f”? Pressing questions that demand answers… Continue reading →